It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers. — C. R. Smith Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern. — Frank Lorenzo Copy Share Image
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance… — Cornelia Fort Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior. — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I… — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes.… — Harry Broadhurst Copy Share Image
From the air, the distinctions between residential, commercial, and industrial areas are easily understand while town, county, and state boundaries go unseen. — Oliver Gillham Copy Share Image
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be… — Claude Grahame-White Copy Share Image
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six Copy Share Image
All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere Copy Share Image
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire. — Charles Kingsford Smith Copy Share Image
I don't fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
